Find answers to your big nature questions. Delve into stories about our research, scientists and the collections we care for. Uncover the history of life on Earth, from the smallest insects to the ...

The exponential accumulation of digital data is expected to outstrip magnetic and optical storage media. DNA’s significantly higher information density combined with the availability of technology for ...

As Virginia Woolf famously said, "I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman." Throughout history, women have often been sidelined, either due ...

A goal for biochemistry instructors is to support their students’ ability to critically analyze protein structure and its relationship to function. To do this, biochemistry instructors strategically ...

“We aren’t going to get sick, are we?” my roommate Brett asked me. He cringed as I knelt down and stuffed a plate of E. coli bacteria—which came as part of the DIY CRISPR–Cas9 kit I bought online—into ...

We have executed SWIFOLD in different FPGA-based platforms. Some of the performance results are detailed below. Experimental platform: A server with two Intel Xeon CPU E5-2670 8-core 2.60GHz, 48 GB ...

Electronic computers are extremely powerful at performing a high number of operations at very high speeds, sequentially. However, they struggle with combinatorial tasks that can be solved faster if ...

Ones and zeros are eating the world. The creating, keeping, communicating, and consuming of information are all being digitized, turned into the universal language of computers. All types of ...